In Taiwan's capital city, the prefect Zou Yingyuan has been in a good mood these days. Are people in good spirits when they are happy events, and in the blink of an eye, it will be time for Taiwan to collect summer taxes again, is Zou Yingyuan's 'happy event' already close at hand?

The Manchu Qing Dynasty gave special preferential treatment to the Taiwan government, with a population of millions and countless acres of land, and only a small amount of taxes per year. The Taiwan government has not reported his father-in-law's promotion in 20 years, and he has not been blamed and reprimanded from above. The whole of Taiwan only levied 4,746 taels of silver a year, and 108,057 stones. For the current Taiwanese products, it is completely a drop in the bucket.

In the same way, in order to keep the government shut quietly, every time it is time to collect taxes, they will come to the yamen to visit bureaucrats at all levels, and this time is also the time when the oil and water of the Taiwan government arrives. From the prefect and the general army to the Taiwan military garrison that was just added last year, and down to the white service of the small officials of the yamen, everyone will eat a mouthful full of fat.

At present, Taiwan's military Beidao is a native of Shanxi, Sun Hsiao-yu, who is in his 50s this year and has just arrived in May. So this year's summer tax Zou Yingyuan can still eat a big head, and when the autumn grain or the summer tax of the next year comes, if Sun Xiaoyu doesn't intervene to come in and stir up, hehe, Zou Yingyuan can write his surname upside down.

So, Zou Yingyuan's incomprehension a few days ago has also re-stretched. If the industry in my hometown is corrupted, it will be corrupted, and no matter how resentful I am, I can't recover the losses I have, right? But as long as you are still sitting in the position of the prefect of Taiwan, it is not easy to earn a family business again? Zou Yingyuan, whose hometown is in Wuxi, Jiangsu, the belongings of the old house were swept away by the Fu Han army, if it weren't for the Zou family's field even if the Fu Han army divided it, no one would dare to take it, and the Zou family couldn't even keep the last property.

After Qianlong's sixteenth year of high school jinshi, and now for seventeen years, Zou Yingyuan is not an official and prosperous, but he can't be said to be bad. Officials like him occupy the main position in the entire Manchu bureaucracy, and it is difficult to aspire to the position of feudal territory in their lifetime, and the three-rank official is the ceiling for them, but how many positions are there in the whole of China where the feudal officials and the six books of the book are there? What's more, there are so many places to be reserved for the Manchurian Eight Banners? For example, Zou Yingyuan is already good, he is the middle level of the whole system, and he is also the pillar of the whole system. For such an official, as long as the person is still there, it is not difficult to earn a share of the family business again.

"Master, master......"

Zou Yingyuan likes to drink tea very much, and has a square pot in his hand, which is said to be made by Shi Dabin, an expert in purple clay pots in the former Ming Dynasty, and the treasure is extremely high. Zou Yingyuan's favorite thing to do is to make a pot of good tea, read an idle book leisurely, and enjoy himself. Take a point of indifference, that point of tranquility, Zou Yingyuan especially enjoys.

As a result, this tranquility was shattered by his personal entourage.

"Master, Fengshan, someone in Fengshan County has reversed ......" Chang Sui ran out of breath, but he didn't miss the anger on Zou Yingyuan's face, and hurriedly reported. This is a big deal, and since he received the news, he was like a rabbit that had been stepped on his tail, running all the way to find Zou Yingyuan, who was having fun. There is a huge prefect's yamen, from the front hall to the back yard, the distance is not short.

The anger that had just appeared on Zou Yingyuan's face was swept away, and he stood up suddenly, looking at Chang Sui with an incredible expression, and the book in his hand fell to his feet.

"Master, there are really people who rebel, really. A man named Huangjiao in Fengshan County raised the flag and shot down the Gangshan Xun Camp, killing more than 50 officers and soldiers. ”

Zou Yingyuan was dizzy for a while, the whole person shook, some unsteady standing, his legs were weak, and he sat on the recliner, the recliner touched the coffee table on the side, and Zou Yingyuan's treasure on weekdays smashed the square pot of the printing bag with a bang.

But whether it is Zou Yingyuan or his long-term entourage, no one cares about this at this time.

Zou Yingyuan subconsciously wanted to stand up, but his legs were still soft, and he couldn't stand up by holding the handlebars with both hands. And this time he seemed to have exhausted his strength, closed his eyes slightly, and fell back into the recliner in a decadent manner.

"Master, master......" jumped straight up in a hurry. At this time, my master can't stand up.

"Stop screaming." Zou Yingyuan was upset by this long call. With a low roar, his face returned to three points of anger. "Heirs, prepare sedan chairs. I'm going to see Sun Xiantai. "The so-called Xiantai, in the Qing Dynasty, was the title of officials above the prefect and below the 'three constitutions', to be precise, it was called the Taotai.

Sun Xiaoyu, as Taiwan's military commander, is Taiwan's highest commander, even if the military attache is the second rank of the Taiwan town commander-in-chief, he must bow down to Sun Xiaoyu. Wang Wei is a person, Chen Ming wants to see his quality, and Zou Yingyuan, as the prefect of Taiwan, has worked with Wang Wei for many days, but he knows that this guy is an old slippery head, and it is a fantasy to expect him to quickly extinguish the rebel army in a short time.

"The head town is untenable, in Taiwan, who does Brother Qingyuan [Zou Yingyuan] think can be used?"

"Ye Xiangde, the deputy general of the Penghu Water Division, is still capable."

"How can there be a single soldier who vacates a town and a general town and uses a cooperative? When the official goes to Fuzhou, it will be decided by Lord Futai and the general. "Sun Xiaoyu won't take risks. He wanted to report to Fuzhou and ask Fuzhou's Fujian governor Euning and Fuzhou general Ming Fu to come at most, and they were the two most powerful people in Fujian at the moment. Because Cui Yingjie, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who was also stationed in Fuzhou, had already rushed to Zhejiang.

On June 15, the 33rd year of Qianlong, the Gangshan Yellow Sect raised its banner against the Qing Dynasty, gathered more than 500 poor peasants, and directly launched an attack on the flood camp where the officers and soldiers of Gangshan were stationed, defeated the Qing soldiers, seized hundreds of weapons and ordnance, and then besieged Fengshan County. The surrounding poor people enthusiastically participated in the rebel army, and by the time Wang Wei, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, arrived with his troops, the Huangjiao army had grown to two or three thousand people. Wang Wei was frightened, "After watching for a few days, he began to lead his troops forward, several miles away from the thieves, stationed in front of him, fired empty guns, and set himself on fire." ”

Before such a letter was delivered to Qianlong Lao'er, Chen Ming had already received a secret report from the secret camp. This Wang Wei is a complete idiot, and he is even more timid and cowardly. The Huangjiao army has only two or three thousand people so far, and there are some women and children, Wang Wei raised more than 5,000 troops, but he did not dare to attack.

Now Yan Yan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Association on North Taiwan Road, is about to launch an uprising in advance, Wang Wei's incompetence is really beyond expectations, with such a general soldier, it is an opportunity given by God. Don't you take advantage of this good time to launch an uprising, and wait until the Qing army soldiers come back and the head of the Yellow Sect is cut off?

Chen Ming was speechless for a long time after getting the news of the arrival of the secret camp, Taiwan is going to be chaotic, and the whole Fujian is also going to be chaotic, when the remaining garrisons in Fujian have been transferred to Taiwan to suppress the rebels, Fujian's own Heaven and Earth Society will then break out in an uprising, and they are the biggest foreshadowing planted by Chen Ming. According to the original plan, the uprising of the Fujian Tiandihui would break out on August 15, which was taken from the ancient legend in Chen Ming's cognition: 'Kill the Tartars on August 15), but the fact is that it was apocryphal, and this sentence had never been circulated among the people in the middle of the Qianlong period. It's only June 15th. Plans really can't keep up with the changes.

On June 20, Amiri Village, Xidi, Changhua County, Taiwan, is a very remote small village. Although this village is small, it is surrounded by mountains and streams, and the scenery is very beautiful. Today, in a small courtyard on the east side of the village, more than 20 sturdy descendants have come. Immediately after, a middle-aged man walked on the trail in the back mountain, this middle-aged man looked to be in his forties, with a full beard and a low stature, but he was very thick and powerful. He was followed by four young men in their early twenties, each carrying a gun and a stick and a knife at the waist, with a fierce and courageous expression.

If you want to ask who this middle-aged man is, he is the general leader of the Heaven and Earth Society of each county on Taiwan North Road - Yan Yan. Speaking of this person's name, in the area of Taiwan North Road, including the entire southern Fujian area, it is known to everyone, no one knows, he was introduced by a Cantonese to join the Heaven and Earth Association in the 17th year of Qianlong.

Ten years ago, he was a wanted criminal by the Fujian government. In the autumn of the 32nd year of Qianlong, the news of the Lushan Chen family raising troops reached Fujian, Yan Yan was very excited after hearing it, and the Fujian government was very hard to hunt him down at that time, Yan Yan assumed the name Huo Yin, crossed the sea to Taiwan, because of his high prestige and deep qualifications, he quickly became the general leader of the North Road of the Taiwan Heaven and Earth Society.

After Yan Yan arrived in Taiwan, he first opened a cloth shop in Changhua County as a cover, publicly identifying himself as the owner of the cloth shop, but secretly contacting the villagers from Zhangzhou. Because most of the people in Changhua are from Zhangzhou, Yan Yan quickly became familiar with the situation here, and mixed like a fish in water, and also pulled a few of his new acquaintances from Zhangzhou into the group, among which there was a descendant named Lin Shuangwen, who was still a fellow villager in the same county as Yan Yan, and had a good fist and foot kung fu, which was very favored by Yan Yan. Lin Shuangwen is also a poor family, the Lin family is a desperately poor ghost in Zhangzhou, in the spring of 33 years, a large number of Fujian water and land officers and soldiers were transferred north, the money and grain used in Fujian increased sharply, and the local government took the opportunity to exploit the people even more, the Lin family's poor stomach could not be full, where was the money to pay taxes? In desperation, he had no choice but to cross the sea to Taiwan.

Lin Shuangwen is enthusiastic, has a good fist and feet, and has a stomach full of resentment against the Manchu Qing government, and was easily pulled into the gang by Yan Yan, along with Chen Sheng, Chen Pan, Wang Fen and so on.

Today is a very important day in Taiwan's local history, Yan Yan believes that the time is ripe, Wang Wei, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, led more than 5,000 troops south to Fengshan, the Taiwan North Road Battalion was almost wiped out, Taipei was empty, and in Yan Yan's eyes, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Yan Yan held a meeting of the backbone of the North Road Tiandi Association in this remote village, which was attended by Lin Shuangwen, Yang Zhenguo, and Chen Pan of Changhua County, the latter being the head of the Zhangzhou People's Congress in Lugang, Yang Guangxun, Huang Zhong, and Zhang Lie of Zhuluo County, Wang Zuo and Lin Xiaowen of the Tamsui Department, and Zhuang Datian and Zhuang Xishe of Fengshan County, South Road. The area of Taiwan South Road is much smaller than that of North Road, and the Tiandi Association of all parts of South Road is more independent, and it is impossible to find a person with such prestige and qualifications as Yan Yan, Fengshan County came to Zhuang Datian and Zhuang Xishe, but they each represent the Zhangzhou people and Quanzhou people of the South Road Tiandi Society.

Zhuang Datian is a native of Zhangzhou, and Zhuang Xishe is a native of Quanzhou.

Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, in the history of immigration to Taiwan, Zhangquan armed fights occurred frequently, and the government could not stop it at all, and there were hundreds or thousands of people at every turn, and there was an indissolvable hatred and hatred on both sides. Therefore, Yan Yan, who was born in Zhangzhou, can easily sit in the position of the general leader of the Taiwan North Road Heaven and Earth Society, but he cannot become the head of the Taiwan North and South Heaven and Earth Society. Taiwan's geographical division, the gods also have a headache.

June 20 was of great significance in the local history of Taiwan in later generations, and on this day the Tiandihui established the general policy of an early uprising, and when Yan Yan forwarded the results of the final discussion among the leaders of the various counties of the Tiandihui in Taiwan to Chen Liang, Chen Liang was also quite embarrassed.

He knew that the day had come for him to leave Zhangpu.

The Heaven and Earth Society uprising is imminent, and his mission to Fujian is completed. In the chaos of Taiwan, the source of sulfur is a sure thing, so he has no reason to continue to stay here.

He needed to go to Canton and work on the Thirteen Lines and the Portuguese in Macau.

Chen Ming told him: Foreigners value wealth and profit but have no trust. As long as you take out the white money, it is not impossible to buy the foreigner's sea ship directly. For example, the set of foreigners' artillery drills made in the foreign barracks in Macao before the dark camp was attacked. (To be continued.) )